When Work and Romance Collide — Lights, Camera, Where’s the Action
Whose business is it anyway
Showmances are ubiquitous in Hollywood. During a film shoot, you’re isolated with a small group of people over a condensed period. There’s little time to see anyone outside of work, let alone date or pay your bills. The job becomes an alternate reality. A bubble.
But what if your significant other is inside the bubble and no one knows? Is it really anyone’s business who you sleep with at night?
I’d just met my boyfriend, Andreas, when he got offered a huge job as the production manager on a multi-million dollar Shall-Not-Be-Named Telephone Company commercial.
“It’s a three-month gig,” he said. “I don’t think I’ll have time to see you. Unless you want to work on it with me?”
The role of production coordinator wasn’t new to me, but it had been several years since I’d done the job. “I’ll cover you,” he said, “until you find your feet again.”
We’d be shooting fifteen different spots featuring a shepherd with a hundred live sheep trailing behind him at multiple locations. The idea was that even a shepherd in the middle of nowhere could access anything in the world — a bookstore, a restaurant — through his cell phone.
